I bought this for my son's 3rd grad class, and the teacher and kids all love it. The teacher said that it's working really well. I would have given it 5 stars, but it's only been in use for a few weeks.

I bought this sharpener for school use, and I was really excited to receive this product. I opened it and sharpened 16 pencils on it and it did great. Then after a week I started using it everyday , and that's when it started showing how fragile it is. After sharpening 15 pencils it quit then I waited a hour , and then it only sharpened 5 pencils and quit. This is not the WORK HORSE pencil sharpener I thought it would be. Has a great design but way too expensive for what you get. I am very disappointed in this product's quality.

I purchased this sharpener last September and for the most part, I really like it. It's heavy duty, has the perfect amount of options and sharpens well. At one point, something happened and it stopped sharpening properly. However, I contacted Swingline to troubleshoot. When we couldn't find/fix the problem, they promptly replaced my product with no hassles. My new sharpener works perfectly yet again and I was very impressed with the service.

We have been using Swingline Pencil sharpener in the past and love it. We decided to purchase something more versatile for different pencil sizes and bought the Swingline Optima. We are happy with the results which is very smooth sharp point, fast sharpening and importantly, fit various pencil sizes.